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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Moshe Cordova
Moshe Cordova
Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne,…
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2017…
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
I spent the summer of 1989 living in a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood…
Curt Sachs
Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist…
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
The passing of the founder of the Yiddish theater spawned a touching emotional response…